I recently decided to take a break from meat no seafood, poultry, pork, or red meat for a month to cleanse my system. Anyways my period started today and I have been having horrible cramps, a really bad headache, and been feeling naseocus does this have any effect on me cutting meat out for awhile. Could it cause any problems like anemia especially if I don't know what nutrients I'm missing out on?
Daisy
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How long have you been abstaining from meat? If not long, you might not eating enough calories. Veggies are much lower in calories than meat, so you need to eat more.
Are you eating a lot of soy products? Tofu, fake meats, etc? Unfermented soy has been shown to affect women's menstrual cycles, lower men's sperm count and can damage the thyroid gland.
Your body is cleansing itself every day, every hour. Cutting out a food or drinking some concoctions is not going to "cleanse" your body.
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"Could becoming vegetarian effect my period?"
No becoming a vegetarian will not affect your period. Many teenage girls have become vegetarian with no affect on their period (excluding those who became, or were anorexic). I agree on seeing a gynecologist, and the whole bit about the cleansing diets. Those are a load of male bovine feces. Nothing really stays in the gastrointestinal system for more than about eighteen to twenty four hours. I know from experience, as well as having been through two colonoscopy procedures.
As for the anemia, I'm also doubtful on it happening within a month's time frame. However it is possible though if you were already borderline, or slightly anemic before the diet change, and are eating a lot of leafy green vegetables, and/or little to no source of vitamin C. Then that COULD HAVE POSSIBLY cause you to become anemic. But you would have had to have been borderline at the least,or already slightly anemic.
While leafy green vegetables are healthy, and good for you, they are when eaten raw loaded with oxylates, that can prevent your body from benefiting from getting the iron in them. The oxylates can block the body's absorption of iron. This is why a good source of vitamin C will help. However also what can help is cooking those leafy green vegetables, then draining off, and discarding the liquid, to get rid of the oxylates removed by cooking. Also do be careful with some of those leafy green vegetables as they can be high in vitamins A and E. Getting to much of one or both can cause vitamin poisoning, or vitaminosis. Kale spinach, and Swiss chard, are high in vitamin A. One hundred grams (a bit over three and one half ounces) contains more than a day's supply of vitamin A. here are four vitamins all told to be careful with. A, D, E, and K (vitamin K applies though under certain conditions), as these are fat soluble vitamins that can in large amount build up in your system, that COULD result in vitaminosis, which can become very serious.
As for not knowing what nutrients you're missing out on, you can take what you eat, and run a simple search on. Over time I've come up a simple search, that has worked well for me. You can even use the example below, to have a look, and see what it brings up.
squash summer nutritional value
Then I looked for a site, that would give me a breakdown of the various nutrients in a given food, like the one given in the example above. My go to site gives simple easy to follow tables, that has a drop down where I can adjust the weight/serving size. This is my personal go to site.
nutritiondata.self.com
While it may lack in certain areas, for my taste, it has served my needs, and purposes well. You can use it to learn how to help properly balance out meals to have good nutritional meals. Also do NOT just start out taking supplements just haphazardly, you can get into serious trouble that way. However vegetarian diet done right can be healthy, but it won't work for everyone. However what you learned in school about nutrition, doesn't really give little more than a beginning. However here the internet can be a good tool, but be careful, there's a lot of propaganda out there, if you want to enhance what you learned at school.I would tough encourage you, or anyone, regardless of dietary choice to spend a little time learning more ta what's taught in primary through high school, about nutrition.
M'aiq The liar
You wouldn't get anemia in less than a month. It takes months to develop it from dietary neglect.
I find it highly unlikely that becoming a vegetarian would make your period worse. But I'm not a gynecologist. You should speak to one.
ckngbbbls
cleanse your system of what??? did you know that your liver and kidneys do that all the time? did you know that the day after you ate the last bite of meat, it was also out of your body as poop? FYI you haven't been off meat long enough to become anemic or for it to effect your period. NOT everything that happens to someone is diet related.
Anonymous
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